Columbia Education Foundation

Analysis

Columbia Education Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Columbia Education Foundation reported income of $266k and spending of $225k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $259k to $266k (+2.6%), an average of +0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 240%. Over the whole period it spent 54% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Columbia Education Foundation sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Independent Association of Framingham State Alumni ($266k), Emerald Ballet Theatre ($266k) and First Americans Land Grant Consortium Incorporated ($266k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.